Yay for alliteration and association. Anyway, this is where I will be sharing any pieces of my "art" that I happen to think are worth showing to the community. I'm not great at drawing (no real skill whatsoever) so the kind of stuff posted here will likely fit into one of three categories

1. Minecraft Pixel Art: The closest thing to traditional art that I can do. Will usually consist of 8-bit Nintendo characters who can be nicely portrayed with MC wool colours. I do take requests as long as I can find a reference picture.

NOTE 1: Everything from this category is done manually within the vanilla Minecraft engine in creative/flat mode. I don't use any mods or other external programs to complete any of these images.

NOTE 2: If for some reason I can't produce a specific shade I will default to the nearest colour I can find if it doesn't wreck the image that much. e.g. A dark yellow next to normal yellow would all just be yellow.

NOTE 3: If the default colour is too far from the needed shade I might decide to change it to a different colour completely. e.g. I don't have a dark navy blue so I'll default to dark grey if it fits the image.

NOTE 4: I may use a different colour even if I do have the appropriate shade. This will usually occur if the same colour is used in multiple areas but doesn't seem to fit in my opinion. e.g. The same colour is used in Treble's ears and the circle things on his legs so the leg areas would be changed to yellow (that's how it is in official art anyway).

2. Written Pieces: I am a writer and I occasionally like to write short stories or poems so I will probably post some of them here from time to time if anyone wants to read them.

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Sat Apr 14, 2012 5:47 am

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Ok, so the first piece depicts the good guys of MM10 with two exceptions. Protoman isn't there because I don't like him. Bass and Treble aren't there because I consider them to be more neutral than anything else.

Well Proto's more of an anti-hero than a pure good guy. Bass does whatever he wants if it means proving his strength. Treble just follows Bass.

Well made. How many hours did you spend on this project?

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Sat Apr 14, 2012 5:57 am

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Eh, maybe three or four? I don't really know. I usually just open a music playlist, open minecraft, open the reference picture and then go at it. It sounds a bit cliche almost but time loses all meaning. I find it relaxing though, especially right after getting home from work or university.

I think I'll also post this one tonight. It depicts everyone's favourite mechanical dragon. I enjoyed working on this bit despite how long it took. One annoyance however is how dark MC's green wool is (as opposed to the lighter lime wool). Perhaps he has some form of robotic scale rot. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

Now onto the next portion from my Megaman spree. As was alluded to in the first pic post, I present Bass, Treble and Reggae. I have a bit of a bias towards Bass. Probably because he can aim. That and Treble looks cooler than Rush. I'm starting to think Pink is right about Bass though. The first part I did was Reggae. Then, not a minute after I started Bass it began to rain (in game). The rain stopped once I started on Treble. Perhaps he is trying to be a fish after all.

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Sun Apr 15, 2012 11:49 pm

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I don't know why that turkey is funny to me?

Pretty good, I need play that game one day

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Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:28 pm

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This is the last piece from my recent Megaman spree and the one that I'm most proud of I guess. I give you a condensed MM10 Stage Select Screen. I couldn't find a proper resource for getting the background but that probably would have doubled the time spent on this at least. Also, my Bass bias shows up again. Also, I updated my texture pack so wool shows up as a solid colour and not like wool, so any pieces that are done after this will be like that.

I remember this being interesting because of the simplistic colour scheme. That made it easy to do in MC so bonus points to GB/C games I guess. Fun fact: Ash and Pikachu are on the other side of the tower, but I can't be bothered taking a picture at the moment. (Completely off topic, I'm glad I made the tower/apartment complex before the introduction of flat worlds and increased world height. It would've taken me so much longer to finish if I were to try it now.)

This was my first attempt at pixel art. Kirby, due to being the SNES sprite, lost a few shades, but it doesn't really show. I'm surprised that I had the exact right shades and colours for Cecil though.

well, in the end, I can see they're on their world and lovin still when people are around of the partner x3Good job

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Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:50 am

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As always Aoi, your input is appreciated .

Next up, something I did a few hours ago (yep, actual 'NEW' stuff tonight). I present Ganon: Crazed Zombie Pig Wizard (final boss of an Oracle of Ages/Seasons linked game). I like this one. It has a certain kind of character to it I think that, so far, hasn't really appeared in these pieces. Also on offer is the angered form of the Armos Knight from Link's Awakening.

Wow,, just over a month with no content. I will have to do something about that. Time to put up something other than MC Art I think (Which, lets face it, isn't impressive when it's all things you've seen before). I present to you, dear viewer, a poem. Originally it was only the first stanza, which I have changed about half of. And before you ask, no, I am not mentally troubled, psychotic, depressed or anything of the like. I swear.

I wasn't gonna ask, that would be rude. I'm always imaginative when reading these and I really like this piece. So good job, take the word of someone who has no experience in writing poems, which is to say, me. ^_^

Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:33 am

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Spontaneous update including a poem with no real context!!!

~People I Only Think I Know~

First born son of a maiden blueLife seeker, light seeker, has no clueHas no father, has no kinCarries the day with innocent sin

Woman of shadows casts a smileA darker self kept in denialTrains her heart and trains her soulSuppresses the mind to make it whole

Go little birdie, fly awaySave your death for another dayThe sharpest knives won’t help you hereAn open head that fills with fear

A soul stained black with hellfire taintA repentant goal though he is no saintClouds surround those he has slainPouring down a bloody rain

Family dead by insane handYet with that threat he still will standHealing others with natural artsCarrying the Ace of Hearts

Clothed in white with an opposing crestMoonlit star within his chestBringer of pain dealt out in spadesHooded fighter with double blades

Soul of two in body of oneFighting, training, just for funVoice of youth in the veteran’s hallFollowing gods to heed their call

Unnatural shields that will not breakAnd powers of others he can makeLogic wins within his mindA better future he hopes to find

From magic and science and power he cameHe has none but himself to blameDarkness cries out for escapeSo that his heart it can reshape

A wanderer of shifting spaceWith memories he can’t eraseThe outcast in this world of deathHe fights to keep his final breath

It seems that a few of us have been playing The Binding of Isaac lately, as is evident both on the forums and on skype. Being a big fan myself, I decided that it would be the focus of my next Pixel Art image. I now present the full cast of the game's playable characters. Maggy was annoying at first because I couldn't get the hair looking right. But after I worked out a look that I liked, it became the template for how I would start on Eve and Samson.

From left to right, in the order that they appear on the character select menu: Isaac, Maggy, Cain, Judas, Eve, ??? and Samson.

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Fri Jul 20, 2012 1:20 am

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Since it has been almost a week since the last update, I think it's time for another. During my classes I often find myself jotting down small things, poems and such, instead of paying attention (However, 8 was actually a task based on modernism. It is made completely from snippets taken from what I think was an academic journal of some kind.). I'll post parts of what I've jotted down here, kind of like a collection. This is the first of grab bag collection, with more to possibly come in the future. Enjoy.

So hey, another update already it seems, more writing this time, though not of the poetic variety. A writing task for uni had me writing a horror story of 250 words and I thought I'd share the outcome. Enjoy.

A man travelling through the night stopped at the manor. He never arrived at his destination. A boy went to deliver the paper to the manor. His rounds went unfinished. A realtor went to inspect the manor. She never returned. A journalist went to investigate the manor.

The air was cool and the stars were dull. The old inn stood tall against the trees. He approached the threshold, venturing beyond. A lone candle flickered. The clerk was still and silent, hooded and pale. He asked for a room and about other guests. He was ignorantly given a key. A slight rustling was heard but the eaves were a void. At the edge of vision, a crimson tear from her eye.

The room was cold, enough so to extinguish the heat. The blanket itched. The pillow was hard. The time spent in dreams was restless. Something woke him; perhaps a scream in his thoughts or a feeling in the air. Muffled cries floated up beneath the floor, though he never climbed the stairs.

A door and a descent, wooden creaks alerting what lay below. Candle in hand, he walked onwards. There, the clerk. Pale face, blue lips, a streak of red, fallen to the floor, gossamer strands at her joints from above. Things like spiders, yet tall and slim, shrieks echoing his croak. A glimpse of a bloated beast, mother of the brood, and then the world went black.

Today I'm posting something a little, different. Currently there is no image of my OC, Ark, and I've been too busy to do a proper description for a request (I'm working on it). However, I stumbled upon something that gave me a chance to at least get a simple concept look together.

Yeah, I know, Walfas. But I think it serves its purpose well enough for now. As such this image will also go on the OC page itself.

In keeping with the mostly parallel updates between here and my blog, today's post contains two more written offerings, the first is a piece of appropriation poetry and the second is something completely original. As is for the most part customary, enjoy

So, I was playing around with Walfas stuff some more and attempted something more akin to a scene image, rather than that of just one character. Each character is some form of representation of someone's OC or a variant thereof, however the scene itself doesn't represent anything in particular that has occured within the RP area. Probably won't do any more Walfas stuff in the foreseeable future, so this isn't a trend.

If those 2 on the ground are supposed to be Jobs and Aoi, you could of just imported the DNAs of them and used the cloning machine to get them up, the DNAs can be found on the Walfas thread (which is currently on page 2 of the Artist Centre as of this post)

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Sat Sep 15, 2012 7:39 am

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Considering I never knew we even had a Walfas thread... Not that it matters though, I wasn't trying to get super serious representations or anything, just screwing around with it, that's all. Thanks for the info though Vega. If I go back to Walfas in the future it might come in handy.

What has it been, 2 months and a bit? Anyway, today I finally have something that is relegated a new section to my original three, but first, an intro. For many years now I've been a somewhat avid player of the card game known as Magic: The Gathering (henceforth known by it's more recognised acronym MTG). I don't know how many members know of it, and then how many have actually played it on top of that, but here's an extremely brief explanation.

The players represent super powerful mages, using spells from any (or none) of the five colours of mana; White (W), Blue (U), Black (B), Red (R) and Green (G). Each colour has it's own themes, the things they do well and the things they don't. Spells manifest themselves in anything ranging from powerful creatures, epic spells, quirky artifacts and a myriad of other things. I'd go over the rules but to explain every intricacy of them would maybe equate to the Homestuck explanation.

By now, you probably know where I'm going with this. For those of you who haven't worked it out, I present to you a little project of mine. Using the mechanics and layout of MTG, I've begun adapting characters and other things of the forum into card form, naming this simply MTG: PRG. Every so often I'll be posting the designs of the cards and such (by which I mean not card art), and maybe the reasoning behind certain choices. These cards have no external balancing with already existing cards and some are either internally broken or can easily form a broken combo. Due to the fact that these are only the rules text and such, this unfortunately might make the cards absolutely meaningless and/or confusing to those who know nothing of the game. Part of me wants to ignore that but for the sake of it I'll be linking the MTG Salvation wiki in the first post for those who want to learn more. Anyway, for now I'm showing off five cards, all but one having popped up in skype over the last week and having been viewed by their namesakes. As always, enjoy.

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